Monday, March 31, 2014

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.Here are two cartoons by Reg Manning:

Monday, March 24, 2014

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.Here are two cartoons from Jim Ivey:

Monday, March 17, 2014

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.Here are three cartoons by Lute Pease:

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

This unusual map of 1685 illustrates ocean currents as understood at the time based on the observations of explorers and mariners. It's from an article about the greatest-ever science illustrations, which includes, of course, the ground-breaking map "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" by John Snow in 1855 which revolutionized epidemiology (see below). The list includes other items we've posted, including this mesmerizing ocean currents video.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

We've had a number of posts with animated maps showing territorialchangesover time. My favorite is this bubble map of declining empires. Well, here's another one from our friend Rob that shows the evolution of the USA. I'm hoping Puerto Rico's request for statehood will be granted soon so that this will keep going.

Friday, March 7, 2014

So I'm still looking for travelling-around-the-globe clips from the Indiana Jones movies, those interludes between scenes where the planes, boats, submarines, etc. are shown translucently over the map showing their routes. I did a post once before showcasing an homage to those clips, along with a factoid about the incorrect geography in at least one of those travel scenes. The best I've got so far is this clip from a Best of RiffTrax's Raiders of the Lost Ark video, from the same people who did Mystery Science Theater 3000, where they (justifiably) make fun of that scene:

I bring this up because there is currently a Kickstarter campaign to fund the filming of the last scene needed to complete an epic shot-for-shot fanflick remake of the Raiders movie. Of course they included the travel-around-the-globe scenes and they even spoofed them in their Kickstarter video (at about the 1:30 mark):

One last thing: how could I have forgotten to post that Map Room scene from the Raiders movie? Here it is (sorry for the obtrusive ads):

Thursday, March 6, 2014

In the marketing blitz that is the run-up to the next Muppets movie there's an ad that shows how kermit's calmness and Lipton Tea helps him navigate the Animalistic chaos that is New York City. Here's the 10-second bit where he helps some tourists arguing over a map:

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Randall Munroe's xkcd continues to provide us with mappy delights. This one was from last week and is an automatically updated image of time zones around the world. The "title-text" at the actual webcomic says:

This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning) Shortcut: xkcd.com/now.